Journalists To Declare Assets
May 7, 2010 by SAF Desk
Sri Lanka’s Media Ministry now of course under new management has begun sending Declaration of Assets and Liabilities forms to every journalist in the country.
According to a circular issued by the Ministry last month every journalist in the country from cub reporters at provincial newspapers to the chair persons of major news organisations will now be compelled to declare their assets to the Ministry.
Given that the vast majority of the country’s ministers who make millions from state assets have not yet declared their assets, the idea that cub reporters earning 10,000 rupees a month at private news organisations need to declare their assets seems patently absurd……
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